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The Man Who Listened to Plants - Orion Magazine
Apr 18, 2023 · Bose, if you don’t know him, was the scientist who managed to convince a largely skeptical world that plants are living beings. I first encountered his work in an essay called “Ahoto Udbhid” (“Injured Plant”), in which he records a plant’s response to different kinds of stimuli.
Speaking of Nature - Orion Magazine
March/April 2017. June 12, 2017. A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long dead are silent companions to college students wandering the hilly paths beneath rewilding oaks.
The Imagination of the Tiny - Orion Magazine
Oct 17, 2023 · THE FIRST RULE OF BORROWING, a father tells his daughter in Mary Norton’s Borrowers, is that “a Borrower must never be seen.”But like in Fight Club, the story is dependent on this rule being broken.And so Arrietty, a girl two and a half inches tall, steps forth onto a boy’s palm and looks at his skin: a landscape, a touch, a stage.
The Elephant and The Tragopan - Orion Magazine
Nov 15, 2022 · Wolfgang Hasselmann / Unsplash. The Elephant and The Tragopan. In Bingle Valley, broad and green, Where neither hut nor field is seen, Where bamboo, like a distant lawn, Is gold at dusk and flushed at dawn, Where rhododendron forests crown The hills, and wander halfway down In scarlet blossom, where each year A dozen shy black bears appear ...
Evolve - Orion Magazine
Aug 25, 2011 · Evolve. SOMETIME AROUND 2014, Italy will complete construction of seventy-eight mobile floodgates aimed at protecting Venice’s three inlets from the rising tides of the Adriatic Sea. The massive doors — twenty meters by thirty meters, and five meters thick — will, most of the time, lie flat on the sandy seabed between the lagoon and the sea.
Agent Orange: A Chapter from History That Just Won’t End
A decade and a half of life — of marriage and divorce, of fatherhood and graduate school, of love affairs and rafting swift rivers, of university teaching and Buddhist meditation — have swept away much of the hidden shyness and dread. But still, at the …
Submission Guidelines - Orion Magazine
Before submitting a pitch, the most important thing we can suggest is that you familiarize yourself Orion and consider how your work is appropriate for our pages. Orion is about exploring environmental and social issues and looking at what and how people are going about addressing them. If this statement feels obtuse to you (besides the bad ...
Kinship Is a Verb - Orion Magazine
Nov 16, 2021 · Kinship Is a Verb. By Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer and John Hausdoerffer. November 16, 2021. THE FOLLOWING IS A CONVERSATION between Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer, and Gavin Van Horn, the coeditors of the five-volume series Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations (Center for Humans and Nature Press, 2021).
Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities
Photo: Ethan LaPlante-Dube. Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities. $ 15.00. Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities by David Sobel. The most comprehensive review of place-based education – its pedagogy and its practice – yet to appear, by the author of the highly influential book Beyond Ecophobia.